Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> said:
Claiming that we need to address them without providing a good way to
solve that while not compromising on our principles is not a solution.
If you have a good way to enhance the desktop experience without
including or supporting non-free software, feel free to suggest that.
Its also important to recognize that non-free software often has
practical limitations of not being ported across all the architectures
that Fedora supports and we dont have a good way to fix problems that
arise out of it.
Is there any possibility of shipping the things that are legal and do
work across platforms: firmware? For example, I have an Intel wireless
card that uses the ipw2200 driver and firmware. I know there was
discussion from (IIRC) OpenBSD with various vendors about the licenses
for firmware distribution; did any of that go anywhere?
What is the Fedora Project's stand on firmware distribution?
Could there at least be a pointer included somewhere for where to get
firmware? Unlike some other additional software, it is legal to
distribute the Intel firmware for example (at least the way I read the
license). Maybe there could be a "non-free" that includes software that
is legal but under more restrictive licenses (there aren't many things
that fall in that category).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.